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A Temporal Relational Algebra as a Basis for Temporal Relational Completeness

Summary: Defines a temporal algebra with five operators plus a linear-recursion operator for discrete linear time. Equates its expressive power to a safe temporal-calculus with until and since, offering a basis for temporal relational completeness. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7929
Venue
VLDB
Year
1990
Pagerank
9.8276475e-05
Overall Rank
2,000 | 86.11%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,584 Temporal Logic & Historical Databases 1991 VLDB 0.00011247971
2,765 Temporal versus First-Order Logic to Query Temporal Databases 1996 PODS 8.1563487e-05
3,816 Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems 1995 SIGMOD 6.7297612e-05
4,511 Supporting Lists in a Data Model (A Timely Approach) 1992 VLDB 6.1191128e-05
12,911 A Uniform Approach to Processing Temporal Queries 1992 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
611 Logical Modeling Of Temporal Data 1987 SIGMOD 0.00019161022
3,146 Handling Infinite Temporal Data 1990 PODS 7.4837887e-05
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